UK coastguard ‘left Channel migrants adrift’ in lead-up to mass drowning
Investigation reveals that at least 440 people appear to have been abandoned in the weeks before the worst Channel disaster in 30 years • Read...
Category : France
‘There’s a lot of posturing’: Europe’s nuclear divide grows as one plant opens and three close
Europe’s first new plant in 16 years comes on stream in Finland day after Germany pulls plug on last reactors When Europe’s first new nuclear...
‘Chilling’ arrest of French publisher by UK counter-terrorism police condemned
Éditions la Fabrique says foreign rights manager Ernest Moret was held for several hours and asked ‘disturbing questions’ about his political opinions The French publishing...
Banging saucepans will not move France forward, says Macron
President tours rural France in attempt to calm tensions over his unpopular pensions changes Emmanuel Macron has said that banging saucepans at him will not...
‘French Spiderman’ scales Paris skyscraper during pension law protests
Alain Robert climbs 38-storey building with no harness to ‘tell Macron to come back down to earth’ A free climber known as the “French Spiderman”...
Air France and Airbus cleared of involuntary manslaughter over 2009 crash
Paris court clears aviation giants over disaster that killed 228 people flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris The families of victims of France’s worst...
Macron signs controversial pension changes into law after months of protests
France’s highest constitutional court approved the law on Friday, leading to widespread demonstrations French president Emmanuel Macron has signed his controversial pension reform into law,...
‘Twice as determined’: hundreds of thousands protest in Paris against pension reform – video report
Strike action has again heated up in Paris as demonstrators protested against Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise France’s minimum pension age from 62 to...
Eight people missing after explosion destroys two buildings in Marseille
Five people taken to hospital with serious injuries as blaze hampers rescue operation Eight people are not responding to calls and are thought to be...
